The Year of Magical Thinking

"Introducing the Colns Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed ght on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come.
"A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is pty
"John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their daughter fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, then she was placed on fe support. Days later, the Dunnes were sitting down to dinner when John suffered a massive and fatal coronary.
"This powerf book is Didion’s ‘attpt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness’. The rest is a personal yet universal portrait of marriage and fe, in good times and bad, from one of the defining voices of American terature.